AMD to Intel, How much am I going to Gain?

[duncanbullet]

So as it sits right now, I am running a FX 6300 at 3.8Ghz with an ASUS m5a97 le 2.0 mother board, and a gtx 950. 

 

I can run just about any game i want to right now, and do any processes i want to, but.... i know 2gb of vram isnt going to be enough in the next few years and im not going to bank on Zen. 

 

So if had about roughtly 600 dollars to upgrade (motherboard, cpu, and gpu) 

 

What could you guys recommend, AND how much would i gain over my current set up? 

 

Thank you for the recommendations 

[Mikius10001]

Is your 6300 stock 3.8? (just curious)

[duncanbullet]

Just now, Mikius10001 said:

Is your 6300 stock 3.8? (just curious)

no, stock is 3.5, but i did some small tweak in the bios to make it run at betwen 3.8 and 3.9

[MisterWhite]

I'd say buy a gtx 970 or R9 390 for gpu and upgrade your cpu and MB later - unprofessional opinion.

[Mikius10001]

Ah ok, I was just curious as I have pretty much the same rig and mines 3.5

[don_svetlio]

An i5 6400 would increase performance by about 40% and would cost roughly 250-300$ (depending on prices) but that's only for the CPU. If you are still using the 950  your gains will be 0% in games

As for GPU - a 390 + i5 would increase performance by about 100%

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, MisterWhite said:

I'd say buy a gtx 970 or R9 390 for gpu and upgrade your cpu and MB later - unprofessional opinion.

Basically that. You're only going to be held back on really CPU intense games...and considering MOST of them are GPU bound nowadays...

[duncanbullet]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

An i5 6400 would increase performance by about 40% and would cost roughly 250-300$ (depending on prices) but that's only for the CPU. If you are still using the 950  your gains will be 0% in games

As for GPU - a 390 + i5 would increase performance by about 100%

How would the i5 6400 stack up against the i5 4690k? 

[Sanderman135]

If you were to upgrade to the Skylake platform you'd also need to account for the cost of DDR4 ram even though prices have came down, it's still significantly more than DDR3. If I were you I'd get an i5- 6500 or 6400 and an R9 380x or 390.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, duncanbullet said:

How would the i5 6400 stack up against the i5 4690k? 

It would be worse since the 4690K can be OCed to 4.5GHz whereas the 6400 is locked to 3.3 I believe

[Sanderman135]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

It would be worse since the 4690K can be OCed to 4.5GHz whereas the 6400 is locked to 3.3 I believe

at stock speeds the 6400 would out perform the 4690k but if the 4690k is overclocked it'd probably beat the 6400. 

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Sanderman135 said:

at stock speeds the 6400 would out perform the 4690k but if the 4690k is overclocked it'd probably beat the 6400. 

There is no probably, the 4690K at 4.4GHz vs the 6400 at stock is an increase of over 15%

[chiwas]

Just now, Sanderman135 said:

at stock speeds the 6400 would out perform the 4690k but if the 4690k is overclocked it'd probably beat the 6400. 

Maybe in single core tasks. 6400 sits at 2.7GHz with all 4 cores active.

[DXMember]

If you can run all the games you like and do any processes you want, then there is no reason to upgrade or change anything.

Save the money for when you feel like it's not enough and buy new hardware at that time, because you'll get more for your money in the future... I mean unless the $ goes full Titanic mode...

 

Also curious what games you play at what resolution, because it's hard to judge performance gains unless we know the tasks you put on your hardware...

[duncanbullet]

9 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

Basically that. You're only going to be held back on really CPU intense games...and considering MOST of them are GPU bound nowadays...

Black ops 3, city skylines, sky rim, gta 5, assassins creed syndicate, all at between med to high resolution. 

i also do alot of converting and computing in excel and adobe, aswell as some minor video editing and rendering. but very mild  

[DXMember]

3 minutes ago, duncanbullet said:

Black ops 3, city skylines, sky rim, gta 5, assassins creed syndicate, all at between med to high resolution. 

i also do alot of converting and computing in excel and adobe, aswell as some minor video editing and rendering. but very mild  

how much is med to high resolution in pixels horizontally by pixels vertically?

[Bacon8tor]

I just upgraded from AMD to INTEL 

had fx-9590, Gigabyte Mobo , 16gb ram , MSI r9 380 

then I got My intel stuff (see signature) 

 

Althgouh I didnt have huge issues with my fx-9590 besides the heat output, I have notice a damn good improvement in games, I gained anywhere between 5 and 20 fps in some games, I mainly play war thunder(actually like not change in fps on MAX ) , Arma 3 ( this is where I noticed a big improvement at least 10 fps+ on some servers)

my computer runs about half the temp as my fx-9590 did at idle but intel is at load. lol amazing. 

also with using OBS i have noticed a lot better smoother streams.  

[duncanbullet]

Just now, DXMember said:

how much is med to high resolution in pixels horizontally by pixels vertically?

1440x900 is my resolution for BO3 right now and i think for everything else i havent really looked.

 

[DXMember]

1 minute ago, duncanbullet said:

1440x900 is my resolution for BO3 right now and i think for everything else i havent really looked.

 

I don't think you need to upgrade...

just keep saving the money and upgrade when you really feel like you don't have enough power

[duncanbullet]

7 minutes ago, DXMember said:

I don't think you need to upgrade...

just keep saving the money and upgrade when you really feel like you don't have enough power

i also do wanna say, i will be upgrading to a larger monitor in the near future, 27" wide screen of some sort 

[MisterWhite]

1 minute ago, duncanbullet said:

i also do wanna say, i will be upgrading to a larger monitor in the near future, 27" wide screen of some sort 

if it remains 1920x1080 there will be no loss in performance.